Covid-19 pandemic has worsened lives of women in Denmark and Serbia

How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the position of women in European countries? Within the project Pulse of Europe – Media Trips to EU, Katarina Djordjević, a journalist of the Politika daily has researched in what way women in Denmark and Serbia, more often employed in service professions, have been affected by work in emergency circumstances brought by the pandemic. Although Denmark is at the top of the list of countries for women’s lives, primarily due to the high level of gender equality achieved, the pandemic brought an increase in violence against women in that Scandinavian country as well, writes the author in the article. The author also penned down the analysis of the situation in Serbia during the pandemic, where women are the majority workforces in vital sectors such are health care (79% of all employees are women), social protection (93%) and education (73%).